The Real Dirt is a monthly column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. This month, Housing Is A

California YIMBY has a lot of explaining to do. While middle- and working-class tenants struggle to pay sky-high rents, wealthy tech executives and venture capitalists, most of whom are based in the Bay Area, are

A growing movement to ban price-fixing software for rental housing continues to spread across the United States. As a result of the RealPage scandal, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Jersey City, and recently Hoboken have passed

Last year, while Californians battled Big Real Estate to pass a pro-rent control ballot measure called Proposition 33, corporate landlords and other uber-wealthy real estate insiders shelled out cash to pay for a YIMBY Action

The Real Dirt is a monthly column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. A Beverly Hills real estate

Housing Is A Human Right has published numerous special reports and articles over the years, including our investigation that won the “Best Activism Journalism” award from the Los Angeles Press Club (see below). They provide

The Real Dirt is a monthly column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. UCLA delivered a

A new study has found that predatory corporate landlords are targeting Black tenants for eviction in the Los Angeles area. The eye-popping report, carried out by a UCLA researcher, also found that Equity Residential, Essex

The Real Dirt is a regular column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. Big news came

For the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in the Grants Pass case, which allowed for the criminalization of the unhoused community, Housing Is A Human Right and the Los Angeles office of